Professor Jolanda Roux receives NSTF-BHP Billiton Award

We heard from Professor Jolanda Roux - Researcher at the University of South Africa’s Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute to tell us more about the recent NSTF-BHP Billiton Award that she received for her outstanding contribution to Science, Engineering, Technology and Innovation. Professor Roux’s research interests focus strongly on fungi and bacteria resulting in disease and death of woody hosts. Most of her research has been focused on the diseases of the commercial plantation forestry species in South Africa and other African countries. The NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards is the flagship project of the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) that encourages and rewards excellence in scientific research, technological innovation, education, capacity building and science communication in South Africa. The awards provide an opportunity for recognition on a national level for all practicing scientists, engineers and technologists across the system of innovation.